Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

A child reaches for a toy, hesitates, then turns away — not because their eyes cannot see it, but because their brain cannot ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

Researchers at Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders (NERF), led by Prof. Vincent Bonin, have published two new studies uncovering how visual information is processed and distributed in the brain. The ...

A schematic view of the main findings, adapting from a brain figure in the study. Our ability to store information about familiar objects depends on the connection between visual and language ...

Learning to read is not easy, but it is made more difficult for a child who cannot see the words and letters on the page correctly. It may not be a problem with their eyes, though. Even children with ...

The occipital lobe is the brain's essential visual processing centre, responsible for interpreting everything we see ...

Blindsight describes the phenomenon whereby individuals with damage to the primary visual cortex (V1) retain certain visually guided behaviours despite an absence of conscious visual perception. In ...